-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bill Crawford wrote:
>> > I'm surprised they did that split in the updates, because the ideal >> >is that you can indeed do a "rpm -Fvh *" in your updates directory. >> >> Yes, indeedy, like I was saying ... >> >> They did the same damned thing with glibc a couple of releases ago. That >> practice makes -F well-nigh useless. > > Well, they don't do it *that* often ... and the glibc-common split >did save a lot of people from downloading an extra 8 MB or so down >56kb lines ... ... and complicated things for enterprise customers like us who need to script this stuff. Bad trade, I would think, but that's just my opinion. >> Believe me, I'm not arguing that dependencies are a bad thing. I _am_ >> arguing that _changing_ the dependency structure mid-release is not >> amusing, and that seems to be the case here. Again. > > Yes, agreed -- sorry. Didn't mean to be rude. I just see a lot of >"why can't I update package XXX" questions, usually easy enough ones >to fix. Not at all. Thanks for helping me pound on it. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPJ/YH79BpdPKTBGtEQJ3xgCfYlEWRuVy/+znRg7B9DjzTZJuVOsAmwYE 320prcB9oDzt21CSH1xTa5E2 =y4Cx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
